We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop…

— Marc Davis

Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals and plants,…

— John Tyler Bonner

I want to be the first person to animate bags - everything done for handbags bores me to tears - I want to make…

— Peter Marino

The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.

— Nicholas Stoller

I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul for characters.

— Luiz Bolognesi

“This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one can only retain it in vignettes,…

— Ann Zwinger

Believe in the character; animate with sincerity

— Glen Keane

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.

— Spike Jonze

An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a…

— Andy Serkis

I don't know how to animate on the computer, and I'm really grateful that I worked with a couple of other guys. We called…

— Glen Keane

Don't animate drawings, animate feelings.

— Ollie Johnston

A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it was reminiscent…

— Seth Shostak

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and they do such a remarkable job,…

— Nolan North

There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to…

— Marc Davis